The suspicion is that Petrobras is creeping away from its core competency as a deep-water exploration and production pioneer to satisfy government desires to create jobs through the inefficient building and operation of refineries.
Taking a deep-water exploration well of natural gas located in the Qiongdongnan Basin in the South China Sea as an example, the hydrate risks of the well under operational conditions during drilling and testing processes were analyzed, and the corresponding hydrate prevention solutions were presented and verified by lab experiments and field application.
"This dual mode keeps the submarine smaller and lighter: It can be a two-person craft for deep water exploration and at the same time be a three-person craft for fun leisure in shallow waters".
LRP reservoir was first discovered in a sandstone reservoir within the Gulf of Mexico (Boyd et al. 1995) and has progressively been at the frontline of several industrial projects that involves deep water exploration and brown-field development.
Is anyone shutting down fracking, drilling, open pit mining, deep water exploration?
Tension leg platform (TLP), a deep water oil exploration offshore compliant system, is vulnerable to considerable fatigue damage over its design life period due to the dynamic excitations caused by the oscillating waves and wind.
"We have a deep water harbour.
BP and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation agreed a deal on deep-water exploration in the South China Sea.
Shell sold its stake in a deep-water subsalt exploration block off Brazil's coast earlier this month and completed the sale of a group of gas fields in South Texas to Occidental Petroleum for $1.8 billion in January.
Fluor diversified its business more extensively in 1967, when five companies were merged into a division called Coral Drilling and it started a deep-water oil exploration business in Houston called Deep Oil Technology.
"Plaquemines", it said boosterishly, "is positioning itself to become a premier support area for deep-water exploration in the eastern Gulf".
